Top flight football attracts fans from far and wide and that’s reflected in the distances we’re willing to travel to watch our teams in action. It’s also reflected in how far our clubs are willing to travel to play in front of their supporters – just look at the ever popular Far Eastern tours, for example. As I’m sure you’ll agree, the distances clubs’ fans travel has probably jumped significantly over the past 20 years or so with the introduction of the Premier League, and such like.

What we also know is that it isn’t just ‘not so local’ fans top flight teams are attracting. The same can most certainly be said about the playing staff. You’ve probably had this discussion many times before about the ‘foreign influx’. It isn’t a discussion that looks likely to go anywhere any time soon. With that in mind, BBC Sport have compiled some data in order to document the growing tendency towards a more and more Global Game. This study compares the Premier League squads’ players’ place of birth from the ’89-90 season with the same information from their current squads. It’s worth a look – even if just to compare the interactive maps from then and now.